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Author
Series
Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
In post-World War I Britain, Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard travels to Cornwall to investigate three mysterious deaths. Accompanying him is his constant companion, a young Scot he executed on the battlefield whose tormenting voice forces him to face unpleasant truths. By the author of A Test of Wills
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Victoria Trumbull may be ninety-two, but she is as sharp as the proverbial tack. So when she is the only one to spot something amiss in the town cemetery, the police chief listens. Something is indeed amiss. First comes a request to disinter a coffin for reburying elsewhere. Then things go wrong from there.
4) Mrs. Poe
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to support her family in mid-nineteenth-century New York, writer Frances Osgood makes an unexpected connection with literary master Edgar Allan Poe and finds her survival complicated by her intense attraction to the writer and the scheming manipulations of his wife.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Cynthia Riggs gives us the story of how Victoria Trumbell, the energetic nonagenarian amateur sleuth, first came to be a police deputy. While a conflict ensues between the town's retiring minister and his successor, both named Jack, four parishioners have unexpectedly died after being sent anonymous food baskets.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet.
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins, share an obsession with words. As adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation begins to push them apart. Their fraying twinship finally shreds completely when the sisters go to war over custody of their most prized family heirloom: Merriam Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition.
A comic love letter to sibling rivalry and the English language...
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller, A Division of EDC Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When her family moves to the Kansas Territory in 1855, thirteen-year-old poet Lucy Thomkins searches for her purpose in life, while she witnesses the conflict between the proslavery Border Ruffians and the anti-slavery Insiders like her father.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When struggling novelist James Hernandez meets poet Louisa "Lou" Bell, he's sure he's just found the love of his life, but she's engaged to his oldest friend, Rob. So James toasts their union and swallows his desire in this wry, heartfelt exploration of love and loss"--
13) Digging out
Author
Publisher
NAL Accent
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When she was a child, Alys Davies survived a landslide in the small Welsh mining town where she was born, a tragedy that devastated the village and destroyed Alys' family.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Star-Crossed...Behind every great love song is a great love story. It's been seven years and Diana is finally ready to marry her long-time fiancé, Arie; she's even composing a beautiful love song for him, working on it in hotels and concert halls as she criss-crosses the world as a classical pianist. Before she can finish it, though, tragedy strikes--and Diana is lost to Arie forever. But her song might not be... In Australia,...
Author
Series
Emily Dickinson mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Emily Dickinson and her housemaid, Willa Noble, realize there is nothing poetic about murder in this first book in an all-new series from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Amanda Flower. January 1855 Willa Noble knew it was bad luck when it was pouring rain on the day of her ever-important job interview at the Dickinson home in Amherst, Massachusetts. When she arrived late, disheveled with her skirts sodden and filthy, she'd lost...
Author
Series
Emily Dickinson mystery volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When a literary icon stays with the Dickinson family, Emily and her housemaid Willa find themselves embroiled in a shocking murder in this new mystery from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Amanda Flower. August 1856. The Dickinson family is comfortably settled in their homestead on Main Street. Emily's brother, Austin Dickinson, and his new wife are delighted when famous thinker and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson comes to Amherst...
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